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- Date:
- 8 January 2021
- Type:
- Commentary and insights
Nick Martindale investigates the long-term changes to working patterns and the future of the workplace following the changes brought on by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
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- Date:
- 29 September 2020
- Type:
- Commentary and insights
Latest announcements from the UK Government on managing the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic include recommending employees should once again work from home and new measures to subsidise wages. Graham Brown looks at the implications of these new announcements for employers and how HR can ensure they and their organisations are well prepared for the possible introduction of further strict lockdowns at a local or national level.
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- Date:
- 31 July 2020
- Type:
- Podcasts and webinars
Employment lawyer Darren Newman guides us through the process of varying an employee's terms and conditions including the procedure for dismissing and re-engaging an employee, and how to deal with an avalanche of flexible working requests from employees who want to make their lockdown way of working permanent.
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- Type:
- Letters and forms
A model letter to invite an employee to a meeting to discuss a move to permanent homeworking. Depending on the size and nature of your organisation, cost-saving measures to reduce the need for redundancies could include the closure of your work locations and move to permanent homeworking for some or all of your staff.
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- Type:
- Letters and forms
A model letter to confirm a move to permanent homeworking with an employee. Depending on the size and nature of your organisation, cost-saving measures to reduce the need for redundancies could include the closure of your work locations and move to permanent homeworking for some or all of your staff.
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- Date:
- 8 June 2020
- Type:
- Commentary and insights
Many organisations moved to large-scale homeworking overnight when coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdown arrangements were introduced. But as governments ease restrictions, some are now actively considering whether or not the arrangements could be made permanent.
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- Type:
- Letters and forms
A model form to enable a line manager to record a health and safety risk assessment with an employee who is working from home for all or some of their working week.
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- Type:
- Employment law cases
This employment tribunal held, in White v Propharma Group MIS Ltd, that the employer had not indirectly discriminated against a female employee by requiring her to remove potential interruptions while working at home by arranging childcare.
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- Type:
- Tasks
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- Type:
- Policies and procedures
A model policy to set out the arrangements that apply to permanent homeworkers.